Models that put the Pain in Painting!

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**A Black Ram**

Any models out there that just drive you nuts to paint?

For me, it's the same model over and over again that really gets me, but if I had to pick I'd say Goliath juves. You'd be surprised how much detail is on these runts!

**Thaanos**

Ork Boyz. I love Orks, but I hate painting Boyz... Too many..

**FITZZ**

Thaanos wrote:Ork Boyz. I love Orks, but I hate painting Boyz... Too many..

Yes,I'd have to agree.
While I honestly love the painting aspect of the hobby,the repetitiveness of painting up 120+boyz (not including Nobz,Burnaz,etc) did become a bit..maddening.
I would imagine the same is true for any "horde" army.

**The Gate Keeper**

FITZZ wrote:
Thaanos wrote:Ork Boyz. I love Orks, but I hate painting Boyz... Too many..

Yes,I'd have to agree.
While I honestly love the painting aspect of the hobby,the repetitiveness of painting up 120+boyz (not including Nobz,Burnaz,etc) did become a bit..maddening.
I would imagine the same is true for any "horde" army.

Atleast with Boyz theres some variety in the models with the details and stuff. Now nids have to be a nightmare to paint.

**FITZZ**

The Gate Keeper wrote:
FITZZ wrote:
Thaanos wrote:Ork Boyz. I love Orks, but I hate painting Boyz... Too many..

Yes,I'd have to agree.
While I honestly love the painting aspect of the hobby,the repetitiveness of painting up 120+boyz (not including Nobz,Burnaz,etc) did become a bit..maddening.
I would imagine the same is true for any "horde" army.

Atleast with Boyz theres some variety in the models with the details and stuff. Now nids have to be a nightmare to paint.

*Ouch*..very true...I can understand why "dipping" has become so popular with alot of Nid players.

**Necroagogo**

DE wyches for me. The models are just so fantastic I know going into the project that my lack of painting skills means I won't be doing them anywhere near justice.

And that rankles.

**Brother SRM**

IG gunteams. The guns have a lot of obtuse edges on them that don't highlight well. On top of this, I always lack the foresight to paint the gunners before gluing them on the base.

**winnertakesall**

I spend ages converting and moddelling, only to realise 'hang on, I suck at painting', and then making a perfectly good miniature look like road kill XD

**bagley**

Painting kommando khaki on IG... grrrr, so many guys, such thin paint, no variation either

**Matrim**

Boltguns.

i hate them.

**dingholio**

i have 80 Guardsmen..... they're a b?*/!

**KingCracker**

The standard Space Marine comes in first for me. They are just so damn BLAND that it gets boring real fast. Close to that is doing boyz, I swear they have "without number" or something

**bullyboy76**

Faces specially the eyes... trying to get them right un not giving them crazy eye drives me insane.

**RaegMachine**

Ork stormboyz

**Draglide12**

Marines nd boyz. I like to have lots of infantry but the endless repetition makes me have to take brakes every couple weeks.

**lycanfist**

Painting Eyes, its more than just a blob, the blob has to be the right shape and size ARGH!!!

**CommissarCandlestick**

dingholio wrote:i have 80 Guardsmen..... they're a b?*/!

Hey me too! Problem is, there's so many it just gets boring after a while. I also have quite a few vehicles to finish in a very similar colour scheme.

**Draglide12**

I have to paint marines for a day, then orks, then vehicles for both, then dark eldar, then my Gereon resistance force. Then I take a brake and play Starcraft 2 until my eyes bleed.

**Samus_aran115**

Chaos Terminators. They take me roughly 4 hours to do, and while I'm painting, I have to look at the crappy sculpting n the legs....It's murder.

Other than that, the Metal DP. It's really heavy, and parts of it are impossible to get to without grappling the model.... I bought mine 9 months ago, and have yet to finish painting him.

**yeenoghu**

Base coating the trim on marines is boring and takes tediously long to do nice and neatly, but I don't want them to just be one color all over. Once I've picked out knee pads, wrist bands, shoulder trim, bolter housing etc for 3 or 4 of them I am bored and wanting to go back to the more sloppy earthy types of figures where blending and shading do more of the work than even solid colors.

**Asherian Command**

Painting my entire army..... God damn thats going to take me hundreds of years.

**LordWynne**

beaky head marines for me, some guy hired me to paint 4 compleate box sets he picked up some were....AHhhhh! thats 120 detailed ultra marines.....took me 6 months...

**Asherian Command**

LordWynne wrote:beaky head marines for me, some guy hired me to paint 4 compleate box sets he picked up some were....AHhhhh! thats 120 detailed ultra marines.....took me 6 months...

D:

**Ensis Ferrae**

for me its a toss up between PA marines, and my Nids (who are getting a "new" paint scheme once i figure it out, which makes things worse)

I also have over 100 guardsmen, but their scheme is so easy that, except for the eyes, i can do a whole squad in about half an hour.

**KingCracker**

lycanfist wrote:Painting Eyes, its more than just a blob, the blob has to be the right shape and size ARGH!!!

Yea these too, its even more a pain for me, as I paint my Orks with a bright skin tone. So a little slip up, and its a repaint for an Ork head

**sluggaslugga**

Guardsmen. 1 Painted 119 to go ( plus 10 elysians 60 DKOK 10 catachans) *sigh*

**DPBellathrom**

NMM, never looks right when I do it

as far as models go, I hate painting tanks. they end up with a tron look :L

defilers, their annoying to paint too. I got my first one a few yeas ago, still haven't made it past 50% of the base coat. megatrons gonna take for ever

**VikingScott**

winnertakesall wrote:I spend ages converting and moddelling, only to realise 'hang on, I suck at painting', and then making a perfectly good miniature look like road kill XD

+1

**Henners91**

The metal Psykers have been pretty boring for me atm, but they're not the worst...

Hrm, I'm going to go with Deathwing Terminators simply because the way I paint them is time-consuming and mind-numbing.

But vehicle-wise it's got to be the Land Raider...

And yes, I too know the pain of painting 100 guardsmen
:-/

Really enjoying painting Eldar atm, time-consuming but refereshing!

**loki old fart**

Loota's so many small details.